Last week I spent some time in Boulder and Aurora, Colorado, at the FitSocial Conference fitness bloggers conference. Here are some highlights on the food and a recipe created by Chef Paolo Neville!

I did take all of the photos with my iPhone, so they are rather small unfortunately.

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We had lunch at the Whole Foods Market in Boulder a couple different times. This place is amazing…and very, very busy! I think they need to build another 1 or 2 Whole Foods Stores in Boulder! It is a very popular lunch spot.

Thursday night some of us went to eat at Shine. The restaurant features a completely gluten-free menu along with diary-free and vegan options.

Shine features local and organic foods, and many are fermented and cultured so it makes your belly happy, too (if you don’t have yeast allergies).

On Sunday, we got to watch Chef Paolo demonstrate healthy food prep. He made a wonderful Asian Styled Quinoa Salad (I’m sharing his recipe!). I couldn’t eat it because of the soybeans in it, but it looked and smelled amazing.

Haha, the photo certainly doesn’t do it justice! They are very delicious and chocolatey. I think I might do a post on what we learned. It would probably have to be separated: one post for fitness info and one for social media/blogging info. I did write a post on my fitness blog about the hiking and exercise we did: http://fitbetty.com/having-fun-with-fitness-at-fitsocial/

Aw! This post kind of makes me miss Boulder. No I definitely do not miss school at all. I just miss the healthy living aspect! I remember when I would go to WF, the fish counter boys would treat me… TOOOO WELL! LOL! And that WF has the BEST roasted garlic Brussels Sprouts, however……….. When you eat too many of them, LMFAO!!! I will forever wish I went to this conference, just no time! But I know that I NEED TO plan in advance next year! 🙂